# Does installing azure plugin cause any data loss?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-installing-azure-plugin-cause-any-data-loss/237799>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-installing-azure-plugin-cause-any-data-loss/237799 "2020-06-19T11:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![gokulnath112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gokulnath112](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gokulnath112)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-installing-azure-plugin-cause-any-data-loss/237799/1 "2020-06-19T11:54:50Z")

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Greetings..! Hope everyone is safe and good.  
I have a 3 node cluster in production.It holds almost 24Lakhs of records. I want to install azure plugin to take backup in azure container. As it is in production, i'm afraid to install azure plugin.  
Kindly help me by your suggestions that if i install azure plugin would cause any data loss or node failure.

Thanks in advance and sorry for grammatical mistakes.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-installing-azure-plugin-cause-any-data-loss/237799/2 "2020-06-19T12:42:19Z")

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It should not create data loss.  
You should basically follow the steps in this document: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rolling-upgrades.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rolling-upgrades.html)

Or if you can, do a full cluster restart.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-installing-azure-plugin-cause-any-data-loss/237799/3 "2020-07-17T12:42:30Z")

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